Rhino dung, Snatch, Ego’s and Fences

So I know I said we would discuss what we have been up to and why, so here is a slight angle on the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project which Wildlife ACT helped with at the end of last year. A couple of our conservation volunteers were there helping out, the most noticeable volunteer task being that of designated dung collector - which required a hand to be shoved up a tranquilised rhinos’ bums to get dung samples. However, this post has little to do with dirty hands, rhino dung or tracking rhino. One of the components of the project is to encourage neighbours to drop fences to accommodate Black Rhino. A question I wanna throw out there is the following:

Why do so many game reserves still have fences up between one another anyway?

Wildlife ACT gets Blogging!

Wildlife ACT gets blogging! We decided this would be an awesome format for us to communicate to the world on what we have been up to and more importantly why we have been up to what we have been up to and how went about it and what other conservationists think about what we have been up to...